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  Date / Time: 1/24/2009 9:17 AM UTC

  Websites for Citizens of These United State
  

  Okay, so the federal government can be a bewildering maze of information. We are bombarded daily with news from TV, newspapers, magazines, the internet, and radio, and all of it is filtered through someone who consciously or subconsciously has an agenda. This includes my radio show, so I'm not pointing fingers. But the art of objective journalism seems to have fallen by the wayside, if in fact it ever really existed. So, we listen to those we agree with, or we listen to those that scream loudest, or we listen to what is repeated most often, and more often than not are left less informed, more bewildered and more frustrated than we would have been if we'd just turned off the news and read a good book instead.
  
  And yet, we can't just complacently ignore what our government does or we wind up with things like the TARP program, the 2008 Bail Outs, and the upcoming American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. That's just a small fraction of the economic havoc that has been and will be wreaked upon our nation in the span of less than a year. We have scandals aplenty when public servants take advantage of the public trust, and no one notices, because no one is paying attention. We have nominees appointed to high level positions with conflicts of interest, shady histories, and outright incompetence in their supposed fields of expertise. This is not just this administration, or this Congress. This is not just Democrats or Republicans. This is government inn general. Tremendous power, left unchecked, will lead to tremendous disasters. We the people of these United States have a responsibility to our ancestors, ourselves, and our children to know what the people we elect are doing, and stop them when they go astray. In an effort to help you, my fellow citizens, to become as informed as possible, I'd like to give you a few websites.
  
  The US Senate
  http://www.senate.gov
  
  The US Congress
  http://www.house.gov
  
  The US Supreme Court
  http://www.supremecourtus.gov
  
  The White House
  http://www.whitehouse.gov
  
  THOMAS - Library of Congress
  http://thomas.loc.gov/
  
  Each of these websites has information on the day to day business of our branches of government, including summaries or legislation, committee hearings and reports, court decisions and arguments, Executive Orders and Memorandum, and much, much more. I encourage each and every one of you, when you hear something in the news that catches your attention, take the time to check it out, get the facts, and then make your voices heard with your representatives. It is their job to represent your interest, but if you do not make your interest known, they will inevitably serve themselves instead of you.
  
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